“The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.”
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“Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.”
“A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.”
“Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.”
“My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal. So I sort of veered off into the watered-down version of Catholicism.”
“My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.”
“Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.”
“Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.”
“After all, is football a game or a religion?”
“Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous those in philosophy only ridiculous.”
“I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.”
“Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.”
“I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.”
“When push comes to shove, it ain't the science that's going to lift you up-it's the belief, the spiritual side of life, that's going to lift you up, no matter what religion you are.”
“It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.”
“If I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian things I'm working on, they're like, 'He's avoiding it.' If I do talk about it, it becomes, 'Oh, he's proselytizing.'”
“There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.”
“Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.”
“I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.”
“God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.”
“Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.”
“It's one thing to be religious, but it's another thing to make religion your policy.”
“After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.”
“Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.”